One more thing... When i demote this DC to member server, i am hoping that all connections in NTDS will be removed also and when i run dcpromo again i should have all my correct connections <auto-generated> for me again. Am i correct? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Fugatt [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:52 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000 http://www.MSExchange.org/ First of all, you can have more than one GC per domain, in fact it is recommended that you have 1 GC per site, and there is another recommendation of 1 GC for every x number of DC's but I cannot remember what x is at the moment. As long as your Exchange server is not holding any of the AD FSMO's then you should not have a problem with demoting it. Mark Fugatt MCT, MCSE, Microsoft Exchange MVP Pentech Office Solutions Inc Tel: 585 586 3890 Cell: 585 576 4750 Fax: 585 249 0316 www.4mcts.com www.exchangetrainer.com -----Original Message----- From: Vadim Shulaev [mailto:vadim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 1:35 PM To: [ExchangeList] http://www.MSExchange.org/ I have been thinking about it for a while now... I have Exchange 2000 sp3 running on 2K server which is also DC2 in the domain. It is not a GC or anything, just a secondary DC in the domain. I installed DC on the server first and then Exchange software. Everything seems to running good, except i have some replication issues with GC DC. Someone previously made both of the DC's GC and AD was getting confused, but i made the chages back as you can have only one GC server per domain. Now i am having all kinds of "strange" issues with replication and i was wondering if i can demote this server to memeber server, remove AD from it and later on proote it back to DC. This should cleanup my connections and regenerate them again. If i do demote this server which has Exch2000 on it, will the mail server sill work without DC on it??? Have anyone done this before??? Vadim. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: mark@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: vadim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')